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  By: Jay Kristoff Release Date: August 9th 2016 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Rating: 1 out 5 Series: The Nevernight Chronicle Summary: In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is ...

    By: Becca Fitzpatrick Release Date: October 13th 2009 Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR Rating: 1 out 5 Series: Hush, Hush Summary: SACRED OATH A FALLEN ANGEL A FORBIDDEN LOVE Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment. But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel. For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fa...

    By: Ukyo Kodachi (Story),Masashi Kishimoto (Creator),Mikio Ikemoto (Illustrations) Release Date: April 4th 2017 (first published August 4th 2016) Publisher: VIZ Media LLC Series: Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Rating: 2 out 5 Summary: The ninja adventures continue with Naruto’s son, Boruto! Naruto was a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He achieved his dream to become the greatest ninja in his village, and now his face sits atop the Hokage monument. But this is not his story... A new generation of ninja is ready to take the stage, led by Naruto's own son, Boruto! Boruto gets through round two of the Chunin Exam and receives praise from his father. But what Naruto doesn’t know is that his son is cheating by using prohibited ninja tools. What will happen to Boruto when the truth is revealed? Meanwhile, darker forces are advancing behind the scenes…  Review: It’s a continuation of Boruto as he goes for the chunin exams. Boruto do...

      By: Ukyo Kodachi (Story),Masashi Kishimoto (Creator),Mikio Ikemoto (Illustrations) Release Date: April 4th 2017 (first published August 4th 2016) Publisher: VIZ Media LLC Series: Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Rating: 2 out 5 Summary: The ninja adventures continue with Naruto’s son, Boruto! Naruto was a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He achieved his dream to become the greatest ninja in his village, and now his face sits atop the Hokage monument. But this is not his story... A new generation of ninja is ready to take the stage, led by Naruto's own son, Boruto! Years have passed since Naruto and Sasuke teamed up to defeat Kaguya, the progenitor of chakra and the greatest threat the ninja world has ever faced. Times are now peaceful and the new generation of shinobi has not experienced the same hardships as its parents. Perhaps that is why Boruto would rather play video games than train. However, one passion does burn deep i...

  By: Sue Grafton Release Date: April 15th 1982 Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston Series: Kinsey Millhone Rating: 2 out 5 Summary: A IS FOR AVENGER A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, she's got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. A IS FOR ACCUSED That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy. A IS FOR ALIBI If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is clo...

  By: Shinobu Ohtaka Release Date: December 18th 2009 Publisher: 小学館 Rating: 3 out 5 Summary: Deep within the deserts lie the mysterious Dungeons, vast stores of riches open for the taking by anyone lucky enough to find them and brave enough to venture into the depths, from where few have ever returned. Plucky young adventurer Aladdin means to find the Dungeons and their riches, but Aladdin may be just as mysterious as the treasures he seeks. Together with the Djinn Ugo and his friend, Alibaba, Aladdin sets out to find his fortune in the depths of the endless dunes. Review: Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic manga series based on the stories from Arabian Nights! A fantasy adventure with a blend of comedy. It stars Aladdin with a magical flute that summons his friend, Ugo. Ugo is a shy, headless djinn. Aladdin is trying to help him recover his head, and this volume begins their adventures. Aladdin encounters another famous name, Alibaba, who is head of hire who wants to ...

By: Joseph Helmreich Release Date: March 14th 2017 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Rating: 3 out 5 Summary: Years after a scientist is abducted on live TV, a graduate student tracks down the mysteriously returned, yet reclusive man, ultimately uncovering a global conspiracy. During a live television broadcast on the night of a lunar eclipse, renowned astrophysicist Andrew Leland is suddenly lifted into the sky by a giant spacecraft and taken away for all to see. Six years later, he turns up, wandering in a South American desert, denying ever having been abducted and disappears from the public eye. Meanwhile, he inspires legions of cultish devotees, including a young physics graduate student named Shawn Ferris who is obsessed with finding out what really happened to him. When Shawn finally tracks Leland down, he discovers that he's been on the run for years, continuously hunted by a secret organization that has pursued him across multiple continents, determined to fo...

  By: Emma Geen Release Date: June 7th 2016 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Rating: 2 out 5 Summary: When we first meet Kit, she's a fox. Nineteen-year-old Kit works for the research department of Shen Corporation as a phenomenaut. She's been “jumping”--projecting her consciousness, through a neurological interface--into the bodies of lab-grown animals made for the purpose of research for seven years, which is longer than anyone else at ShenCorp, and longer than any of the scientists thought possible. She experiences a multitude of other lives--fighting and fleeing as predator and prey, as mammal, bird, and reptile--in the hope that her work will help humans better understand the other species living alongside them. Her closest friend is Buckley, her Neuro--the computer engineer who guides a phenomenaut through consciousness projection. His is the voice, therefore, that's always in Kit's head and is the thread of continuity that connects her to the human wo...

  By: Nalini Singh Release Date: March 3rd 2009 Publisher: Berkley Sensation Series: Guild Hunter #1 Rating:   1 out 5 Elena Deveraux doesn’t consider herself a vampire hunter. Hired by a dangerous Archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that she fears for her life. Only one thing is clear—failure is not an option… even if the task is impossible. Given the task of hunting, a rogue angel has gone bad. The job will put Elena in great danger. Even if the hunt doesn’t destroy her, succumbing to Raphael’s seductive touch just may. For when archangels play, mortals break… This is some of the worst writing I’ve read in a long time. There was no depth, no finesse, and it was completely lacking in subtlety. The plot revolves around a vampire hunter named Elena being hired by an angel because she is the very best there is, however she’s hired to hunt an angel who has lost it and not a vampire. The angel is on a violent spree that she, and somehow the archangel who hired her, has to ...

  By:  Anne Perry Release Date:   November 1st 2011 (first published 1990) Publisher:  Thorndike Press Series:  William Monk #1 Rating:  1 out 5 They said his name is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But an accident that happened upon him left him with no memories. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero. Can he solve this mystery when he forgot his professional skills along with everything else? The Face of a Stranger is a boring book. I struggled to finish the book, and  I was close to being defeated. The main character, Monk, has amnesia. I get it. But he sits around with all this introspection, wondering what kind of person he is, who he is, why he doesn’t seem to have any friends, etc. Why doesn’t he just ask someone? His sister, or maybe his boss. I get the impression that he’s going to sit around doing this through the entire book, and I don’t ca...

  By:   Kate Quinn Release Date:   June 6th 2017 Publisher:   William Morrow Paperbacks Rating:   3 out 5 In 1947, Charlie St. Clair, an unmarried and pregnant American socialite, is on a search to find her missing cousin. So when Charlie’s parents banish her to Europe to have her “little problem” taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister. There she is introduction to Eve Gardiner, a retirement spy who is train mesmerizing Lili, code name Alice, the “queen of spies”, who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy’s nose. Haunted by the betrayal that destroys Alice network. Eva spends her days drunk until Charlie barges in, uttering a name Eve hasn’t heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads. I’m disappointed in myself for not enjoying this more than I did. I did like roughly half of the book and had ...

  By:   Louis Sachar Release Date:   June 1st 1998 (first published 1978) Publisher:   HarperCollins Series: Wayside School Rating:   2 out 5   Sideways Stories from Wayside School contain thirty stories about the children and teachers at Wayside School. Someone accidentally built the school sideways, with one classroom on each story. So there thirty stories are strange and silly.     As an adult, I just can’t figure out what I ever saw in it. I was so shocked at its stupidity, I actually wanted to stop reading it. Since it is pretty short, though, I finished it. The continuous attempts at humor, too driven and full of being mean and disrespectful to others. Whilst I understand the main point of the book, I just don’t find these stories acceptable reading when they seem to encourage kids to be bad or disrespectful. I appreciate that it’s not my sort of book and that maybe this is a fun read for some kids who might not otherwise read.

  By:   Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl Release Date:   September 14th 2010 (first published December 1st 2009) Publisher:   VintageLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers Series:   Caster Chronicles Rating:   1 out 5   Ethan White is counting down the month until he can escape from Gatlin, South Caroline. During the count-down, he is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When new girl Lena Duchannes, niece of the town shut-in move into town. Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. Would their love story end in happier ever after or deadly ever after. This is a rewrite of the review that I wrote, many months ago. I was not very happy on what I have wrote. So I never post it until now. My thought on Beautiful creature is not very positive. The story follows some old dead beat formula: a paranormal/human pairing, uncovering of the ‘mysterious’ partner’s true nature, teens drawn to each other f...